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Video played perfectly for me, though I did leave it at 1x because I didn't want to miss anything with his accent. My only mild disappointment is he seems to feel that Mastodon is free of censorship. I've never installed or reviewed configuring Mastodon because my understanding is the someone, somewhere, can somehow interfere with what a user sees in a feed. Anyone familiar with this? Is it just default install confi…
Video played perfectly for me, though I did leave it at 1x because I didn't want to miss anything with his accent. My only mild disappointment is he seems to feel that Mastodon is free of censorship. I've never installed or reviewed configuring Mastodon because my understanding is the someone, somewhere, can somehow interfere with what a user sees in a feed. Anyone familiar with this? Is it just default install confi…
Nothing is censorship-free, but the social web (the fediverse) is just a bunch of websites. A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. Other websites may choose to block your site for their community. That is the way of the web. Each site has different rules and cultures. It's convenient to sign up at someone elses site, but you give up some control. Want to live by your own rules? Put u…
This is done more then you think. Probably the most known one is thepiratebay for example
May it survive The Hug /s, kinda. Peertube may help
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Nothing is censorship-free, but the social web (the fediverse) is just a bunch of websites. A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. Other websites may choose to block your site for their community. That is the way of the web. Each site has different rules and cultures. It's convenient to sign up at someone elses site, but you give up some control. Want to live by your own rules? Put u…
> A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. This is done more then you think. Probably the most known one is thepiratebay for example
This is awesome. Why don't more people self host / host everything themselves these days in the age of privacy? How can we make more people self host their data rather than giving it to corporations? A start might be to tell people to use extensions that are adblockers and to disable javascript on websites and even use and setup pi-holes to take back their data and privacy. There must be more that can be done here bu…
Here's my pitch...
Sell a productized version of a server that has everything you need to run all of your data-sharing needs already set up with a nice front end that can be operated by a remote control from an HDMI-connected TV. Using that front end, the user connects to the local network, establishes mobile app companions, enters in any global details for accounts they want to maintain, and manages all the configuration options for the server.
The server would host all of the things a household would want to maintain, using open source projects for transparency and maintainability. That would include things like peertube and mastadon for publishing content and media, but it would also include home automation software, as well as personal media software like owncloud as a way to replace google drive content and plex to manage personal media playback.
Basically, a little server that uses open-source software to emulate every modern cloud-based service, on a household scale so that you can run it cheaply enough to be affordable ($60-$70 bucks?), layered in encryption and firewalls for privacy and federated to other home servers (and everywhere else) using the fediverse, while also adding in anything you would want a home-management or home media server to do.
I call it an "accent server". Like an "accent table". I would make it stylish enough to display, but discreet enough to tuck out of sight.
And, personally, I see this kind of thing coming around either way. It's just a matter of whether or not one company puts together all of this software and starts offering it as a walled garden, or if it bumbles itself together out of CLI utility chaining, and enough reddit posts circling around the same setup questions.
That assumption is based on the idea that most people seem to want what this would provide; it's just that not even particularly tech-minded people want to go through the steps of setting each of all of these things up. And it's only when you have 3 or 4 of the services or features working in tandem that they add up enough to make a change in lifestyle (which is what we're attempting) tempting enough.
So if you could put together a "buy it once, plug it in, set it up, forget about it" kind of offering, I think you would get a ton of people that would buy it, and then once it was just a thing in your house that you could start adding custom plugins to (as easy as installing an app), then you would get a ton of adoption. The hard part is marketing; you have to really explain it fully to make anyone understand what it is you're trying to offer.
I'm interested in stories that span for several years, because if someone installs and maintains something for 1-2 months, then this is not really an indicator of anything. Part of the difficulty comes with system updates, application updates, migration of configuration files, hostile environment like DDoSes of angry people, hacking attempts, deprecated docker containers, incompatible library versions, changed policy…
Yeah my self hosting story started in 2003 and involves moving all of those things to many different servers, etc. I had problems with hacking when I used WordPress, the server has been taken over 2 times. Once I stopped that those problems stopped too. And because I have only 1 person instances I don't get much attention of angry people.
The depricated PHP version is my biggest problem until now, I used a lib written in PHP 4 which are now incompatible with PHP 8 and I can't easily rewrite it to make it compatible. So this one is still running on PHP 7, but I will need to do something about it in the future. The best would be to export everything into static HTML but that's also not quite straight forward.
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> Because it's a pain in the ass. People don't want the fediverse, they want an app. It seems that I enjoy the pain with many other people on r/selfhosted. I will call that pleasure I feel, The Pleasure of Pain. I think that was what the web was about since the beginning and lasted for a good couple of years before targeted ads and "data became the new oil". Edit: I replied before the GP edited the comment.
> on r/selfhosted If you're not participating in https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted from your selfhosted Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon/etc... instance, I question your commitment.
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> A website can be blocked at the DNS level, but that is exceedingly rare. This is done more then you think. Probably the most known one is thepiratebay for example
and archive.ph on cloudflare (nothing but CAPTCHAs)
May it survive The Hug /s, kinda. Peertube may help
I'm surprised how well it handles it, the load average never went over 3.
What does the storage/CPU look like? That amounts to the CPU time for three cores, roughly, but it could be spent on waiting (eg: I/O)
Apologies if this is covered in the post, if so -- tell me to kick dirt. I've been posting while I should be working! The plan was to check it out later (promise!)